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Where Is This Pub/club?

Vivienne14

Vivienne14

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image.jpeg This photo PC is for sale on eBay and the seller is asking if anyone can identify it. This is the seller's description. Viv.

"This is an uncaptioned real photo postcard [ 6" by 4" - slightly larger than is usual ] by an unknown photographer. It depicts a public house / working men`s club selling Ansell`s Ales of Aston, Birmingham. So where is / was it ? Can YOU help please ? Thank you . Good collectable condition and seems likely to be rare".




 
no idea at all viv but its a cracking photo...hope someone can identify where it is
 
Don't know where it is , but I have it listed on my computer (a smaller, less clear version) as Birmingham pub, so I think it has come up before
 
My first thought was it looks like a late 1920s/30s building. Maybe it was built on one if the municipal estates that sprung up around Birmingham at that time? I couldn't work out what the business was next door either, at first I thought it was a shop selling petrol. But not too sure. Viv.
 
Not so much petrol Viv, as Paraffin. If readers remember the dramas we had in the 50s and 60s before the days of central heating/double glazing with such potentially dangerous apparatuses. Can't read the logo on the sign- it might be the owner's name display anyway.
 
I know that there was an Ansells pub in Rhyl, and it looked very similar to this. My Grandfather used it when we went on holiday with us. Rhyl was a popular holiday destination for Birmingham and Liverpool folks. We would always take our nan and granddad with us on holiday to Rhyl, a week in a tiny caravan at Sunny Sands, what's not to like.
 
Just because this pub is an Ansells house we shouldn't get fooled into thinking it was a Birmingham pub. Ansells had a pretty wide base of operations all over the midlands and even further afield as Morturn has stated.

I have looked through my photos of Birmingham pubs (nearly 4000) and can see nothing that even comes close to the look of the pub in the photo. I do know that I have never been in the pub itself, because I certainly would remember a front entrance step of that height.
 
Yes, I am sure this is not a Birmingham pub, the forum members are too good at spotting Birmingham locations.
 
Phil said:
Just because this pub is an Ansells house we shouldn't get fooled into thinking it was a Birmingham pub. Ansells had a pretty wide base of operations all over the midlands and even further afield as Morturn has stated.

I have looked through my photos of Birmingham pubs (nearly 4000) and can see nothing that even comes close to the look of the pub in the photo. I do know that I have never been in the pub itself, because I certainly would remember a front entrance step of that height.
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and we all know how good you are at steps dont we phil..sorry i had to get that one in lol:rolleyes:
 
Hi mike,
Yes you are correct it as been on here about eight or nine years ago,and because of the left hand of the pub
With its pots etc hanging between the two business I have reason to believe
This old pub was standing in the 30s and I think it was at the bottom end of Witton road
Because there was a very old iron monger with all his pots pans and tools of allsorts of fashion
It was a bizarre shop it was a long double fronted shop very antiquated been there must been the year dot
And a picture in my mind seeing a premises with the same actual set up
It would have been about 400 yards up from the billiard hall heading towards old six ways
I recall a road near to this pub if walking back to within island
And also when this pub was demolished around 1956/7 ish they built some new building. On the corner was wakelin champion motor cycles list and a new shop next to that
I recall them knocking down quite area of the very old premise on that section I will try and go through my archives on my old system but I have to go out now but will try tomorrow
Within road and at the junction of one of those side roads that run up the side of the villa
And the gates of Aston park faced that side road,
If you came out of that rear little gate of the park across over the road and the nearest road on your left go down and you are at the junction of witton rd
And the road you came out of you could cross over the witton
Road and continue the road there was a keep left sign in the middle of the road
For you if driving and wanted to turn right but the pub is on witton road
Best wishes Alan,,Astonian,,,,
 
On the question or any answers as to whether or not is it or is it not a pub or wine shop or off licence.
Well I have a book called Small Heath & Sparkbrook by Margret D. Green and in it there is a similar picture of an old cottage in the form of a house-type Inn. And it says the Vine Inn 1904. This very old Inn was demolished in 1927 and was replaced by the large pub now called the Gables taveren,
About the same time, the old cottages next to it were demolished to make a small road.
I do know that in the 50s at that postion on green lane its self there was a series of properties that were cottages by the late sixtys early seventies they regenerated a couple of businesses
And the rest had hoarding up from years ago they was never brightened up the same little cottage style Windows and one was a curry shop called Balti 2000. But later changed its name to the
Balti millennium 2000. It only openened on a week end and late night week ends
They had moved down from the bottom end of green lane bordesly green but before that they came from Tyburn road erdington, which was my relatives home and business coffee shop were.
They tried to open up as a chippie , then a pizza hence the big fire and that's where they came from
Green lane now they are on the Alcester road kings heath maypole area
But there was a simualtiy designed windows with that old Vine Inn and there was an lamp outside above
The door so I have come to the conclusion that's what it was called in those days whether a pub or off licence of some sort in its heyday,
Best wishes Alan,,, Astonian,''''
 
Regarding the pub where the Mr and Mrs are standing in the doorway that was on the lower end of the witton road end
And walking up from there on the right hand side there was a picture of the very old
Hardware shop where he was an ancient hardware merchants with all kinds of bits and bobs
Hanging around on the wall and that pub just right next it ajoing wall
When I walked passed it as a nipper I thought to myself
If this was my pub I certainly would not have all that junk hanging directly close to my pub. I do not have a map of Aston to pin point the road. I know the pub was well long been empty for donkeys years when i was a kid
But the iron monger was still there in the 50s before moving and being demolished. When in brum I will drive down there on Sunday to track that road down and jogg my memory
But I do know in my heart and soul these the pic has been showed on here in times gone by best wishes
Alan,,,, Astonian,,'',,,,,
 
I'm with morturn on the subject of the pub at the start of this
thread.
In the 60s/70s, I went into Rhyl quite often and I can remember a pub in one of the streets, away from the seafront, that looked like that.
North Wales is not what it was, we only visit Llandudno these days.
 
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